Katie Glaskin

Katie Glaskin is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. She has worked as an anthropologist on native title claims since 1994, and has published widely in the area of native title. While most of her anthropological work has been in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, she has also lived and worked in India, Nepal, Israel and Japan. Katie’s other major research interests include personhood, dreams, sleep and creativity. In much of this work she takes a neuroanthropological approach, drawing on neuroscience as well as anthropology. In 2015, she won the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland’s prestigious Curl essay prize. Katie studied painting as an undergraduate and continues to practice as a painter.